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GENERAL INDEX
Atlantic Ocean (cont’d)
– carbon budget discrepancies, 364
– characteristics, 45–47
– circulation, 113, 115–117, 123
– colonization, 165
– community respiration, 158–160
– connection to the Southern Ocean, 249
– connection with the Arctic Ocean, 46, 247, 249
– contamination
– – chlorofluorocarbons, 429
– – transport routes, 430
– – vertical flux, 430
– continental shelves, 115
– copepods
– – diversity, 63, 64
– – sampling, 63
– crabs, 392
– crustacean reproduction, 390
– debris flows, 118
– decomposition, 154
– definition, 111
– demersal fish, 112, 155, 156
– – diversity, 156
– densities, 157, 158
– – effects of depth, 157, 159
– disturbance, 165
– diversity, 126, 298
– – effects of depth, 298
– – effects of glaciations, 305
– – effects of latitude, 302
– – gradients, 304
– – poleward decreases, 301, 303
– downslope processes, 331
– downslope transport of detrital flux, 364
– echinoderm reproduction, 399
– endemism, 112, 131
– exploration, 112, 113
– – Alexander Agassiz, 113
– – Bibb, 113
– – Blake, 113
– – Challenger Expedition, 119
– – Corwin, 113
– – DSV Alvin, 154
– – HMS Lightning, 112
– – HMS Porcupine, 112
– – Ingolf expeditions, 113
– – Institut f¨ ur Hydrobiologie und Fischereiwissenschaft, 139
– – Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Wormley), 139
– – L’Hirondelle, 151
– – Louis Agassiz, 113
– – Pola, 283
– – Pourt´ ales, 113
– – Russian studies, 113
– fallout events, 427, 428
– faunal affinities with Southern Ocean, 256
– faunal densities, 124–133, 143
– fishes, 71
– flow-network model, 362
– food supply, 351
– – interannual variability, 352
– – whale carcasses, 355
– foraging strategies of deposit feeders, 346
– foraminiferans, 301
– French and Iberian margins, 138, 139
– gastropods, 22, 298, 302
– – dispersal, 416
– – effects of depth, 299
– – r/K-selection, 406
– general characteristics, 113–119
– geography, 24
– geology, 113
– gravity-driven mass movements, 118
– grazers, 318
– HEBBLE, see High Energy Benthic Boundary Layer
Experiment
– hydrography, 115–117
– isopod diversity, 302
– latitudinal comparisons, 366
– latitudinal trends, 62
– low species richness, 70
– macrofauna
– – density and biomass, 150
– – South Atlantic, 153
– manganese nodules, 119
– megafaunal biomass, 141
– meiofauna
– – densities, 150
– – equatorial Atlantic, 153
– metabolic rates, 154
– microbial processes, 154, 155
– microbiological experiments, 154
– Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 392
– mining, 449, 452
– molluscs
– – embryology, 397
– – interpopulation variation, 307
– – reproduction, 393, 396
– munitions disposal, 433, 434
– necrophages, 151–153, 366
– nematodes, 301, 359
– New England slope
– – plant remains, 354
– North American margin, 113
– North Carolina slope, 351, 385, 387
– – macrofaunal densities, 365
– – seasonality, 392
– Northeast Atlantic, 131–151
– Northwest African margin, 139–141
– – bottom currents, 140
– – macrofaunal densities, 140
– – megafauna, 140
– – meiofauna densities, 140
– – meiofaunal biomass, 140
– – metabolic rates, 140
– – primary production, 139
– – respiration rates, 140
– – upwelling, 118, 139, 140, 317
– Northwest Atlantic continental margin, 123
GENERAL INDEX
Atlantic Ocean (cont’d)
– carbon budget discrepancies, 364
– characteristics, 45–47
– circulation, 113, 115–117, 123
– colonization, 165
– community respiration, 158–160
– connection to the Southern Ocean, 249
– connection with the Arctic Ocean, 46, 247, 249
– contamination
– – chlorofluorocarbons, 429
– – transport routes, 430
– – vertical flux, 430
– continental shelves, 115
– copepods
– – diversity, 63, 64
– – sampling, 63
– crabs, 392
– crustacean reproduction, 390
– debris flows, 118
– decomposition, 154
– definition, 111
– demersal fish, 112, 155, 156
– – diversity, 156
– densities, 157, 158
– – effects of depth, 157, 159
– disturbance, 165
– diversity, 126, 298
– – effects of depth, 298
– – effects of glaciations, 305
– – effects of latitude, 302
– – gradients, 304
– – poleward decreases, 301, 303
– downslope processes, 331
– downslope transport of detrital flux, 364
– echinoderm reproduction, 399
– endemism, 112, 131
– exploration, 112, 113
– – Alexander Agassiz, 113
– – Bibb, 113
– – Blake, 113
– – Challenger Expedition, 119
– – Corwin, 113
– – DSV Alvin, 154
– – HMS Lightning, 112
– – HMS Porcupine, 112
– – Ingolf expeditions, 113
– – Institut f¨ ur Hydrobiologie und Fischereiwissenschaft, 139
– – Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Wormley), 139
– – L’Hirondelle, 151
– – Louis Agassiz, 113
– – Pola, 283
– – Pourt´ ales, 113
– – Russian studies, 113
– fallout events, 427, 428
– faunal affinities with Southern Ocean, 256
– faunal densities, 124–133, 143
– fishes, 71
– flow-network model, 362
– food supply, 351
– – interannual variability, 352
– – whale carcasses, 355
– foraging strategies of deposit feeders, 346
– foraminiferans, 301
– French and Iberian margins, 138, 139
– gastropods, 22, 298, 302
– – dispersal, 416
– – effects of depth, 299
– – r/K-selection, 406
– general characteristics, 113–119
– geography, 24
– geology, 113
– gravity-driven mass movements, 118
– grazers, 318
– HEBBLE, see High Energy Benthic Boundary Layer
Experiment
– hydrography, 115–117
– isopod diversity, 302
– latitudinal comparisons, 366
– latitudinal trends, 62
– low species richness, 70
– macrofauna
– – density and biomass, 150
– – South Atlantic, 153
– manganese nodules, 119
– megafaunal biomass, 141
– meiofauna
– – densities, 150
– – equatorial Atlantic, 153
– metabolic rates, 154
– microbial processes, 154, 155
– microbiological experiments, 154
– Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 392
– mining, 449, 452
– molluscs
– – embryology, 397
– – interpopulation variation, 307
– – reproduction, 393, 396
– munitions disposal, 433, 434
– necrophages, 151–153, 366
– nematodes, 301, 359
– New England slope
– – plant remains, 354
– North American margin, 113
– North Carolina slope, 351, 385, 387
– – macrofaunal densities, 365
– – seasonality, 392
– Northeast Atlantic, 131–151
– Northwest African margin, 139–141
– – bottom currents, 140
– – macrofaunal densities, 140
– – megafauna, 140
– – meiofauna densities, 140
– – meiofaunal biomass, 140
– – metabolic rates, 140
– – primary production, 139
– – respiration rates, 140
– – upwelling, 118, 139, 140, 317
– Northwest Atlantic continental margin, 123